An early '48 Motorola VT-71 in action

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by bandersen

Interesting. I've seen quite a few of these and only the early ones had a box HV cage. Do you know your serial # ?

I don't have it at the moment Bob, but I did look it up on your list and it was one of the very first numbers in the '48 run. My chassis looks just like your yours in the photo. In fact it had a light surface rust coating. I had to carefully brush all the tube rivets and apply wire glue to them as I was having intermittent grounding interference. This was recommended by my repairman friend. It worked too!
By the way jr, I would suspect the HV covers could be swapped, but my set was definitely an as found "virgin". The chassis appeared to have been used to death by the original owner and then just left as-is with no repairs.